Emma Myers as Natalie in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “A Minecraft Movie." Alfred Hitchcock had blondes, MacGuffins, and director’s cameos. Spike Lee has dolly shots, New York ...

When Jack Black’s character enthuses, “First we mine! Then we craft! Let’s Minecraft!,” you are either pumping your imaginary pickaxe in the air or you are unmoving, blank-faced, in your chair. The ...

Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Coolidge also star in the story of four strangers who must find their way back home after being pulled into a cubic wonderland created by a ...

Alfred Hitchcock had blondes, MacGuffins, and director’s cameos. Spike Lee has dolly shots, New York settings, and fourth-wall breaks. And Jared Hess has tots, llamas, and frequent use of “friggin.’” ...

The review embargo has been lifted for A Minecraft Movie, and so far, they're largely mixed. In fact, it's landed on Rotten Tomatoes with 52%, a "Rotten" score that could result in it becoming the ...

Ten years ago, the idea of a movie based on Minecraft, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, would have sounded like a setup for a joke about the current state of video game films. In 2025, though, ...

Jared Hess, the director of "Napoleon Dynamite," brings his indie-camp absurdist cred to this adaptation of the blockbuster sandbox video game. At first, we register how hard the actors are working to ...

The following contains spoilers for A Minecraft Movie, in theaters April 4, 2025. When Minecraft released in 2011, the game exploded into a cultural phenomenon, defining a decade and a generation. It ...

The idea of a movie based on a popular video game is hardly new. “Mortal Kombat,” “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “Tomb Raider,” and “Gran Turismo” are just a few of the titles that made the transition to the ...

The age of clunky, amped-up, zoned-out, overly literal movies adapted from video games lasted a long time ­— from the very first one, “Super Mario Bros.,” in 1993, stretching on through such duds as ...

A Minecraft Movie (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Jared Hess, written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Neil Widener and starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Sebastian Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge, ...